So, I’ve never blogged before, not sure how diligent I can be with it, but I got inspired when I read another Habitat Partner family’s blog. It was very cool reading about the things they were going through at various points throughout the build.
Our build is going to be fast and furious. From what I’ve seen online about other builds they could last up to a year to be completely built. The timeframe for our house, is 12 weeks from ground break to move in.
How ridiculous is that?!?
I’m one of those people that doesn’t get excited about something until it happens. For the last month or so, we’ve been going to our meetings and sessions about finances, and being good neighbours and house maintenance etc.. but it still didn’t feel real. After our last session, we decided to take a trip to the build site, and saw that they had the hole dug… it STARTED to hit me… I got a little excited and actually started to believe this is happening. We found out that they’re pouring foundation as of yesterday and today, which is a week ahead of schedule. Getting a little more excited now. J
My work has been very supportive of this adventure we’re starting on. They are letting me work from home every Wednesday so my wife (Helina) can put some hours in for our sweat equity, everyone at work wants to help with the build, and we might be able to get a big truck to help during move in day – free of charge.
One very cool thing, is that Habitat isn’t just building a home, they’re building an entire neighbourhood. We have a cul-de-sac that already has two habitat homes built there, (they are just finishing those now with the brick on the front, but one family has already moved in) during our build, they are building two homes, (they were going to do 4, but didn’t have the funding for it). I believe their goal is to have 12 houses built on our street when it’s all said and done. At the end of next year, there will be 9 kids under the age of 9 living on that street. Crazy.
Well it’s my first blog, and I think it’s too long, but I’m setting the stage right? I’ll try give updates every few days – and once the blitz build starts on June 20th, I’ll probably update every night.
Thanks for reading! J
